His paradigm operates in a different way Philosophy of life than Jesus had that made him act like a conqueror even in the midst of his greatest suffering: Jesus turned and said to them, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me; weep for yourselves and for your children. Luke 23:28… What philosophy of life led him to such behavior? You need the mind of Christ (1Co.2: 6-16)
“As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. (Is.55: 9)
We must develop the mind of Christ
for, “Who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ. (1Co.2: 16)
“You have heard that it was said to the ancients… but I say to you” (Mt.5: 21-22; 26-27; 33-34; 38-39; 43-44)
God’s logic to explain all this:
Love your enemy, bless him, pray for him
Enjoy yourself when they revile you
Happy when they persecute you Be
detached, sell everything you have
Do not invest your life in earthly things, give your life for my cause
Enjoy trials
When suffer injustice glorify God
Give thanks to God for everything.
Everything works for the better.
The Importance of the Renewed Mind
Repentance, essential for salvation
In those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.” This is he who was spoken of through the prophet Isaiah: “A voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for him.’” John’s clothes were made of camel’s hair, and he had a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey. People went out to him from Jerusalem and all Judea and the whole region of the Jordan. Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River. But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to where he was baptizing, he said to them: “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? Produces fruit in keeping with repentance. And do not think you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham. The ax is already at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire. “I baptize you with water for repentance. But after me comes one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor, gathering his wheat into the barn and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire. ” (Matthew 3: 1-12)
Jesus went into Galilee, proclaiming the good news of God. “The time has come,” he said. “The kingdom of God has come near. Repent and believe the good news! ” (Mr 1: 14-15)
Essential to living a victorious life, maturity and conquering God’s promises You cannot live the Christian life, fulfill your purpose, without a renewed mind (God’s demands require a renewed mind)
Brothers and sisters, I could not address you as people who live by the Spirit but as people who are still worldly — mere infants in Christ. I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, you are still not ready. You are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not worldly? Are you not acting like mere humans? (1Co.3: 1-3)
Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming.(Ephesians4:14)
Then Caleb silenced the people before Moses and Said, “We Should Go up and take possession of the land, for we can do it Certainly.” But the men who had gone up with him said, “We can’t attack those people; they are stronger than we are. ” And they spread among the Israelites a bad report about the land they had explored. They said, “The land we explored devours those living in it. All the people we saw there are of great size. We saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them. ” (Nm.13: 30-33)
“If only we had died in Egypt! Or in this wilderness! Why is the Lord bringing us to this land only to let us fall by the sword? Our wives and children will be taken as plunder. Wouldn’t it be better for us to go back to Egypt? ” And they said to each other, “We should choose a leader and go back to Egypt.” (Nm.14: 2-4)
The Lord said to Moses, “How long will these people treat me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in me, in spite of all the signs I have performed among them?… “How long will this wicked community grumble against me? I have heard the complaints of these grumbling Israelites. So tell them, ‘As surely as I live, declares the Lord, I will do to you the very thing I heard you say: In this wilderness your bodies will fall — every one of you twenty years old or more who was counted in the census and who has grumbled against me. Not one of you will enter the land I swore with uplifted hand to make your home, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun. As for your children that you said would be taken as plunder, I will bring them in to enjoy the land you have rejected. (Nm.14: 11, 27-31)
Essential to experience the good, pleasant and perfect will of God When you do not have your mind recently renewed the will of God.
Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is — his good, pleasing and perfect will. (Ro.12: 2)
Essential to maintain freedom The doctrine of Satan enslaves sin, the commandments of men, traditions.
So also, when we were underage, we were in slavery under the elemental spiritual forces of the world. (Ga.4: 3)
But now that you know God — or rather are known by God — how is it that you are turning back to those weak and miserable forces? Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over again? (Ga.4: 9)
Essential to maintain healing You can spoil healing… remember that wounds are formed by the way you react? Do you remember that consolation involves a process of repentance – a change of mind, of attitude?
As a dog returns to its vomit, so fools repeat their folly. (Pr.26: 11)
Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,” and, “A sow that is washed returns to her wallowing in the mud.” (2Pe.2: 22)
The renewed mind brings benefits on different levels
To relate to God
To overcome trials and difficulties
So that things turn out well for you (principles for family, work, etc.)
The how Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable — if anything is excellent or praiseworthy — think about such things. (Phil. 4: 8)
Change your beliefs How to change your way of thinking? Change your beliefs, but for this, you have to replace them with others, that is why Jesus told you “repent and believe in the gospel”
The Word of God as the only authority and how from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. (2Ti.3: 15-17)
When they leave the Bible: back to fables They will turnThey will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. (2Ti.4: 4)
The Bible does not have the whole truth, but it does have the basic truth. Eg transhumanism and a mixture of species. Creation also bears witness to the truth: since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities — his eternal power and divine nature — have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse. (Ro.1: 19-20)
Zeigheist, and Jesuit Center. When you reject the truth, you turn to myths like these: they promote the idea of the mythical Jesus (not historical) that is the product of plagiarism from other religions.
Carried by any wind of doctrine Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming. Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ. (Eph. 4: 14-15)
Teachings of men as if they were from God Jesus replied, “And why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition? …” ‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. They worship me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules. ‘”(Mt.15: 3,8,9)
Conformed to this world Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is — his good, pleasing and perfect will. (Ro.12: 2)
Politically incorrect Vs preaching of Jesus
Ignorance my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge. “Because you have rejected knowledge, I also reject you as my priests; because you have ignored the law of your God, I also will ignore your children. (Hos. 4: 6)
Acquire new habits. Ignorance + exposure to the world = perdition (Hos. 4: 6Watch)
what you consume
What you hear: But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God’s holy people. Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place, but rather thanksgiving. (Eph. 5: 3-4)
What you see: “I made a covenant with my eyes not to look lustfully at a young woman. (Job.31: 1)
What you feel and think: Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it. (Pr.4: 23)
Who you get together: Do not be misled: “Bad company corrupts good character.” (1Co.15: 33)
Read the Bible Daily Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, (1Pe.2: 2)
Wait for the Bible to confront you: with your beliefs, with your behavior.
Protestant Culture: The Reformation (indulgences Vs salvation by faith)
There are some who read the Bible but ignore the verses that contradict their beliefs or lifestyles. They don’t take it seriously … repentance is being willing to drop “your beliefs” and change them for those of “the Bible.”
You cannot be selective with the Bible.
Debug your beliefs, question them, analyze their foundations.
If you want to believe what you want: you have not really repented
Case of:
“Jesus could not have been angry”
“God does not send bad people to hell”
“I can live in free union, the important thing is that we love each other”
” Do they mean that everything they taught me since I was little is wrong? It can’t be ”
There are some who read it… but in a version they don’t understand.
Become aware that much of Spiritual warfare takes place in the mind Areas that Satan controls because you have accepted his beliefs For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. (2Co.10: 3-5)
The only power of the serpent: the word, the lie. The only safeguard of man: the word of God.
Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?” The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die. ‘”“ You will not certainly die, ”the serpent said to the woman. “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. (Gen.3: 1-6)
And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die. ” (Gen. 2: 16-17)
“Be very careful with your thoughts because they turn into words. Be very careful with your words because they turn into actions. Be very careful with your actions because they become habits. Be very careful with your habits because they shape your character. And be very careful with your character because your destiny will depend on it. ”
The life of defeat or victory depends on the thoughts you accept, on whether you accept the thoughts of God or those of his enemy.
Manage your thoughts
Distinguishing your thoughts and what they are not (2Co.10: 3-5) Not because it appears in your mind is yours. The thoughts that come to mind have three sources: either they are yours, or they come from God or Satan
Satan (Mt. 16: 21-23)
From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life. Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. “Never, Lord!” he said. “This shall never happen to you!” Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns. ” (Mt.16: 21-23)
“’This is what the Sovereign Lord says: On that day thoughts will come into your mind and you will devise an evil scheme. You will say, “I will invade the land of unwalled villages; I will attack a peaceful and unsuspecting people — all of them living without walls and without gates and bars. I will plunder and loot and turn my hand against the resettled ruins and the people gathered from the nations, rich in livestock and goods, living at the center of the land. ” (Ez. 38: 10-12)
Satan conspired against Israel and induced David to take a census of the people. (1Ch. 21: 1)
The Bible the only safeguard against accepting thoughts from the enemy
How can a young person stay on the path of purity? By living according to your word. (Ps 119: 9)
A parameter to distinguish Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable — if anything is excellent or praiseworthy — think about such things. (Phil.4: 8)
The Spirit (Mt.16: 17, Jn.6: 44)
Jesus replied, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by my Father in heaven. (Mt.16:17)
“No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them, and I will raise them up at the last day. (Jn.6: 44)
When he comes, he will prove the world to be in the wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment: (Jn.16: 8)
which was not made known to people in other generations as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to God’s holy apostles and prophets. (Eph. 3: 5)
but prophets, though human, spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit. (2Pe.1: 21)
These are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. (1Co.2: 10-12)
As for you, the anointing you received from him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things and as that anointing is real, not counterfeit — just as it has taught you, remain in him. (1Jn.2: 27)
You
And to others I say, not the Lord… (1Co.7: 12)
For prophecy never had its origin in the human will… (2Pe.1: 21)
John’s baptism — where did it come from? Was it from heaven, or of human origin? ” They discussed it among themselves and said, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will ask, ‘Then why didn’t you believe him?’ (Mt. 21:25)
Consciously accept-reject / believe-disbelieve the thought that enters your mind. (Mt.4: 1-11Rebuke Him)
Reject / You have to reprimand the demonic spirit that is sending you those thoughts. If Jesus had the need to do it, how much more do we. If you don’t eliminate the source of those thoughts, their persistence will defeat you.
Jesus said to him, “Away from me, Satan!… (Mt.4: 10)
Get behind me, Satan!… (Mt.16: 23)
Accept/believe It
They discussed this among themselves and said,“ It is because we didn’t bring any bread. ” Aware of their discussion, Jesus asked, “You of little faith, why are you talking among yourselves about having no bread? Do you still not understand? Don’t you remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many basketfuls you gathered? Or the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many basketfuls you gathered? How is it you don’t understand that I was not talking to you about bread? But be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees. ” (Mt.16: 7-11)
For we also have had the good news proclaimed to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, because they did not share the faith of those who obeyed. (He.4: 2)
Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as it had been said to him, “So shall your offspring be.” Without weakening in his faith, he faced the fact that his body was as good as dead — since he was about a hundred years old — and that Sarah’s womb was also dead. Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God, being fully persuaded that God had power to do what he had promised. (Ro.4: 18-21)
The thoughts inserted by the enemy appeal to some weakness of yours. To the sinful nature, to your physical or emotional needs, to your dreams and desires:
After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. The tempter came to him and said, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.” (Mt.4: 2-3)
What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures. You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. (Jas. 4: 1-4)
For everything in the world — the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life — comes not from the Father but from the world. (1Jn.2: 16)
Bring to mind a counteracting biblical thought
… Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only. (Mt.4: 10)
… You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns. ” Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it. What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul? (Mt.16: 23-26)
Considerations
Discipline for this new habit
Practice, over and over and over again
The attacks on the mind that are more susceptible when:
You are tired (not the force or the “mind” to analyze a matter well)
Emotionally charged (you don’t have a “clear” mind) You
are saturated (you don’t have “the mind” to analyze it well)
Physically or emotionally addicted (you have your interests engaged). – You have not died. (Ro.8: 9)
